Help on the_except() wordpress

i have a blog with auto post article. we know that articles (500-1000 words) are very long and link are on the resource box.

What i want is to display 200 words only on the homepage then after the 200 words displayed, there is "continue reading...". I know i can do this on except but the problem is, no live links and images. Any idea?

 

I think you can do it the way you say ... splitting an article using the "more" tag.

However, I do it slightly differently -- I write both an article and a separate excerpt (note it is excerpt, not except with an "r" in it).

Then, I just display the full excerpt on my home page ... using

<?php the_excerpt();?>

Code (markup):

within my loop (which also has formatting for the post permalink, date etc -- lots of stuff on loops within the Wordpress Codex.

I also use the C6 Excerpts plugin to turn off automatic paragraph generation within the Excerpt (which wrecks the formatting of the excerpt when displayed on my home page).

This is just text excerpts -- I haven't tried including links/html within the excerpt that I create though.

 

Thanks for the informative response. I will get back. Im testing the plugin.

Rep Added.

Thanks
gary